Ferrule for handles.



J. H. BENNETT.

PERRULE FOR HANDLES.

APPLICATION FILED 317N213, 190s.

Patented Oct. 13,1908.

JOHN H. BENNETT, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

FERRULE FOR HANDLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 13, 1908.

Application filed June 13, 1908. Serial No. 438,402.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. BENNETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Worcester, in the county of WVorcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improved Ferrule for Handles, of which the following is a specification, reference being made therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to an improved construction in metal ferrules for wooden handles such as are employed for skipping ropes, pull devices, knives, files and other similar tools; the objects of my invention being to provide a simple and efficient ferrule that will not become loose and separate from the wood handle when shrinking of the wood occurs, and which will leave a circle of wood about the central opening at the end of the handle. i

For the attainment of these objects my invention consists in a ferrule of the peculiar construction described, and in the combination thereof with the wooden handle-body, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective exterior view of the ferrule applied to a handle. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section of the ferrule and handle body. Fig. 3 is a separate central section of the ferrule drawn on an enlarged scale. Fig. 4 is a transverse section, one half at line WV and one half at line X on Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 is a top end view.

Referring to the drawings, B indicates the wooden handle having the central longitudinal bore or recess C, and F indicates the metal ferrule. This ferrule is press-drawn from sheet metal, and according with my invention comprises a cylindrical body portion 2 that corresponds in its internal diameter with the external diameter of the cylindrical re duced end 3 of the wood handle. The outer end of the cylinder 2 is flared or enlarged for a short distance, as at 4, giving an approximately conoidal upward enlargement to its interior chamber at 5. The head is offset or turned inward, forming a narrow annular end portion 6, that stands in a plane approximately perpendicular to the central axis, and is about one sixteenth to one eighth of an inch, more or less, in width. At the inner edge of this annular portion 6 the metal is returned inward and downward in the form of a circular inwardly tapering conoidal lip 7 about one eighth of an inch, more or less,

in width, and the inner edge of said circular lip is beveled or tapered, as at 9, forming a comparatively thin or moderately sharp circular cutting edge. The bevel 9 is preferably made approximately parallel with the cylin der body 2, and concentric therewith. The central opening through the circular lip 7 is of considerable greater diameter than the bore or hole C in the handle, as best shown on Figs. 1, 2 and When the ferrule F and wood handle B are assembled the ferrule is driven onto the woodAuntil the end of the latter is approximately flush with the outer face of the annulus 6. The conoidal lip 7 is thus forced into the wood, severing a narrow annular portion thereof, as at 10, and wedging or forcing the same outward into the space or chamber 5, and by contact with the annular end 6 upsetting it therein in a manner to form a complete circular clench at the outer angle of the wood within the ferrule, as best shown in Fig. 2, so that the handles with ferrules thereon can be subjected to the usual variations of temperature, and tumblings, and hard usages met in transportation and use, without the ferrules escaping from the handles by reason of shrinkage in the wood, or shocks occurring thereto. It will also be noticed that a large annular portion of the wood at 12 is left, between the metal of the ferrule and-the central bore C, so that the tang or portion of a tool when inserted therein does not necessarily rest against the ferrule.

I claim- 1. A ferrule constructed described, comprising a cylindrical body outwardly enlarged at its upper end, with a circular in terior chamber having a diameter greater than the inner diameter of the body cylinder, the upper end of said ferrule inwardly and downwardly returned to provide an inner downwardly directed circular conoidal lip adapted for cutting into the end of a handle and forcino outward an annular portion at the angle thereof into said chamber, for the purpose set forth.

' 2. A ferrule for the purpose set forth, comprising a cylindrical body-portion outwardly greater diameter than the bore of the handle whereon the ferrule is to be used.

3. A ferrule comprising a straight bodycylinder conoidally enlarged at its outer end and terminating in an integral flat annulus approximately perpendicular with the axis, and having an inwardly returned sharpedged conoidal lip integral with its inner circle, the inner bevel at the edge of said lip being concentric and approximately parallel with the body cylinder.

4. The combination, substantially as described, with a wood handle having a cylindrical ferrule-receiving end and a central bore therein, of a metal ferrule comprising a cylindrical body having an enlarged end with a circular interior chamber therein, a narrow annular end portion integral there- \Vitness my hand this 11th day of June,

JOHN H. BENNE'VI.

Vitnesses CHAS. H. Bnnmuou, A. G. DAVIS. 

